WHATEVER YOU ARE...BE THAT!! To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~ e.e. cummings He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~ Raymond Hull God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~ William Shakespeare All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~ Ralph Ellison Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~ Judy Garland We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~ François VI de la Rochefoucault It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ e.e. cummings Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~ Samuel Johnson Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give some people. ~ Tom Masson Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself. ~ Harvey Fierstein Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~ Johann von Goethe Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~ Fanny Brice At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. ~ Steve Jobs Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ~ Samuel Johnson If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~ Unknown Its wonderful when you can bring sparkle into peoples lives without fading away from your own true color. Keep the hue in you. ~ Dodinsky Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true! ~ Robert Browning Follow your inner moonlight; dont hide the madness. ~ Allen Ginsberg It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. ~ Robert Brault We are betrayed by what is false within. ~ George Meredith No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind. ~ Dr. Seuss It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ~ Desiderius Erasmus Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine. ~ James Poland We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~ André Berthiaume The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. ~ Jim Morrison You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~ Irene C. Kassorla You were born an original. Dont die a copy. ~ John Mason Why try to be someone youre not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. ~ Robert Brault We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. ~ Charles R. Brown
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